Abstract: A wheel chair is provided, including a wheel chair frame including a seat portion, an axle structure and two lateral wheels mounted to the axle structure for rolling the wheel chair over a support surface; and a manual propulsion mechanism including first and second clutches mounted to the wheel axle structure, each of the clutches having an outer clutch drum which engages and rotates an internal clutch core affixed to the wheel axle structure when rotated in one direction and disengages the clutch core and spins freely when rotated in the opposing direction; a lever arm affixed to a lever arm axle rotatably fitted through the frame to a drive cable pulley; a drive cable engagingly wrapped around the drive cable pulley and engagingly around the first clutch drum, and extending from the first clutch drum engagingly around a reversing pulley rotatably mounted on a pulley stem secured to the frame, and from the reversing pulley engagingly around the second clutch drum wound in the opposite direction from its win